News Technologique-Tech News

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 12:30

Bots of Yore: Centuries of Tinkering With Uncanny Automatons

By Bess Kalb This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
November 29, 2011 |
12:30 pm |
Wired December 2011

Photo:...

Published in News Technologique-Tech News

Leaping Cockroach Gets Around on Spring-Loaded Knees

A recently discovered South American cockroach leaps through the air like a missile, traversing nearly 50 times its body length with every hop.

Called a leaproach, the insect only infrequently scuttles like a regular roach. The rest of the time it uses two powerful hind legs with spring-loaded knees to rocket above fields of sedge grass.

“Other cockroaches that live in the same environment haven’t bothered to evolve an ability to jump, but this small cockroach has quite literally made the leap,” said zoologist Mike Picker of the University of Cape Town, leader of a Dec. 6 Biology Letters...

Published in News Technologique-Tech News

U.S. Spy Plane Shot Secret Video of Jamaican 'Massacre'

Somewhere in the bureaucratic bowels of the Department of Homeland Security is a videotape shot above the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica on May 24, 2010. It could reveal whether the Jamaican security forces, acting on behalf of U.S. prosecutors, killed 73 members of a notorious crime syndicate or innocent civilians caught in house-to-house fighting. That is, if anyone in a position of power actually wants that question answered.

Over 500 Jamaican soldiers rushed into the teeming Tivoli Gardens neighborhood that day for what became known as Operation Garden Parish, a mission...

Published in News Technologique-Tech News